During a rare hour-long interview with Marc Maron on the WTF podcast, Larry David touched on many aspects of his illustrious career, including why stand-up comedy made him “miserable” and his dubious suggestion that the main plot line from the final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm—in which his character was arrested for handing out water to a Georgia voter standing in line—was not intended to be political (he described it instead as “ridiculous”).
But it was late in the conversation, when Maron brought up Seinfeld, that David revealed some new details about how he managed to make the show exactly what he wanted it to be with zero input from the network or studio.
Asked by Maron what “major obstacles” he and Jerry Seinfeld encountered early on in the process, David replied, “I was sort of doing whatever I wanted and fighting to keep it in.” But when Maron then asked if NBC or Castle Rock ever won any of those fights, he quickly answered, “No.”
